Error installing Mongo3

David

04 Aug, 2010 09:35 PM

I try to install Mongo3 both from Ruby/bin directory and from the Gem manager of the ruby platform in Netbeans IDE6. From the response below can you tell me what I need to do to get it right? Thanks...

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing mongo3:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby191/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for asprintf()... extconf.rb failed
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:364:in `try_do': The complier failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.

from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:417:in `try_link0'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:421:in `try_link'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:529:in `try_func'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:774:in `block in have_func'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:670:in `block in checking_for'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:276:in `block (2 levels) in postpone'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:250:in `open'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:276:in `block in postpone'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:250:in `open'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:272:in `postpone'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:669:in `checking_for'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:773:in `have_func'
from extconf.rb:3:in `<main>'

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bson_ext-1.0.4 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bson_ext-1.0.4/ext/cbson/gem_make.out

Hi there, this support forum is for rubygems platform issues...not usually for dealing with specific gems. We don't want to support all ~15k gems through here, and usually gem authors do a fine job of it.

I would look through that gem's readme to figure out where their support channel is. For starters...it sounds like you're on Windows, and many gems have C extensions (bson_ext), and you don't have a C compiler available. Beyond that I would bug the maintainers of either that gem or the mongo3 gem to see what's up.